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<emphasis>
Specifies that the enclosed text should be spoken with emphasis.
Note that currently none of the TTS engines support this tag.
Attributes
| level | (defaults to “default”) The “level” attribute of the <prosody> tag changes the emphasis of the spoken text. You can specify a preset emphasis (“high”, “medium”, “low”, or “default”). This attribute is only available with the Cepstral Theta TTS engine. |
Notes
Currently none of the TTS engines support this attribute.
Example
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<vxml version="2.0">
<form>
<block>
<prompt>
I can say hello with no emphasis.
Or I can say <emphasis>hello</emphasis> with some oomph.
</prompt>
</block>
</form>
</vxml>
The output of the above script would be:
Computer: I can say hello with no emphasis.
Computer: Or I can say HELLO with some oomph.
Child Tags
<audio>, <break>, <emphasis>, <enumerate>, <mark>, <phoneme>, <prosody>, <say-as>, <speak>, <sub>, <value>, <voice>